Editors, Vineyard Gazette: As an individual who works in Chilmark within the confines of two stone walls, a split-rail fence and some indefinable wire construction, I know that, as Frost wrote, good fences make good neighbors.

If we humans seriously started making corrections to our economic, political and cultural systems (including those promoted in Monday’s Earth Day activities) what do you suppose life in a sustainable United States would look like in 2100?

To hear one expert’s opinion, go to emagazine.com/magazine/choose-your-future. It offers some hope!

On the evening of March 28 we received a phone call from a doctor at the Aspen, Colorado Medical Center. He listed numerous injuries our son, Eli, had received after being struck by a snowboarder while skiing, which sent him flying into a boulder. His injuries were severe enough to airlift him to a trauma center in Grand Junction, Colo.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of April, 1933:

Captain Reginald Norton has blossomed forth as an inventor this week, having built a windmill near his bait house, which he has geared to a storage battery charger. The windmill has eight-foot fans, and in anything above a moderate breeze performs in a very satisfactory manner. Needless to say, there is no lack of batteries for this skipper in charge, and all fishermen are praising his ingenuity in thus harnessing the wind in the interests of economy.

Chilmark executive secretary Tim Carroll and West Tisbury firefighter Glenn DeBlase boarded a plane for the Caribbean on Wednesday morning this week, kicking off the first initiative for the recently founded Sister Islands program between Martha’s Vineyard and the island of Saint Vincent.

Yankee Magazine’s 2013 Travel Guide to New England special issue awarded the Martha’s Vineyard Chowder Company Best Clam Chowder in New England.
The Martha’s Vineyard Chowder Company’s trademarked chowder is gluten free with no butter or flour. Co-owner and executive chef Alex Nagi created the gluten-free chowder. “The first time I tried the chowder Alex created it was so good I knew we needed to name the restaurant after it,” said JB Blau, the company’s owner, “It took about two bites to realize his chowder was a game changer.

Eighteen Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School students and their seven chaperones landed in Rome on April 8. The annual eighth grade trip was inaugurated in 2002 and continues to be led by Charter School Social Studies teacher, Jonah Maidoff. During the 11-day visit, the students spent time in Rome, Florence, the Tuscan countryside and San Giovanni V’al D’Arno where they met up with their pen pals, Italian students of the Instituto Comprensivo Marconi.

The Martha’s Vineyard Adult Learning Program celebrated the completion of its 14th year of teaching English to adult immigrants with a ceremony at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s Performing Arts Center in early April..

The student body hailed from 14 different countries: Thailand, Korea, Russia, Moldova, Bulgaria, Columbia, Honduras, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Spain, and Romania. The joy-filled evening included song, poetry, speeches and delicious food, all student-produced.

Chilmark’s annual town meeting at the Chilmark Community Center on Monday last was over before 11 p.m. and more than that, the voters voted in favor of a bylaw that is the beginning of some landmark rulings in the future size of new houses in town. The discussion was detailed and the comments were all thoughtful and sincere.

What a horrific week in Boston. Not being one to really care about watching television, I must have watched for 12 hours as the news unfolded. Boston certainly showed strength through the ordeal and there are so many professional people who are to be thanked for all their amazing work including the federal, state and local law enforcements agencies, emergency medical personnel, volunteers, the hospitals and staff